A note to the readers

While I am asssembling my notes for future blogs on Fritz Haber, let me take this opportunity to point out that it is important that everyone watch: Judicial Proceeding Slave Reparations Case Oral ArgumentU.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit to be broadcast on C-Span at 7:00 pm tomorrow, Saturday, October 14th. If this country is ever going to get turned around, there is no doubt in my mind that a prerequisite for change is the payment--long overdue--for the labor extorted from those peoples who, against their will, were brought to these shores. It took almost a century for the U.S. to roll back the post-reconstruction neo-slave state laws that dominated the South. Ultimately, the other shoe must drop. Forty acres and a mule? Not nearly enough.____________________________________________As for Fritz, I am planning on posting highlights from the Smithsonian article as well as a bibliography. Interested readers can profit from "googling" Fritz Haber. Check the "images" and "scholar" search engines as well as the general site. And, while I am at this, allow me to anticipate myself. I have come to believe that there are certain macro issues that cry out for more attention, for far more public awareness. Primary among these is the issue of overpopulation. Remember when there was so much concern regarding overpopulation that it was the subject of televised PSAs, or public service announcements, in the 1950s? Whatever became of that concern? If, when the world population was a mere 3 billion, there was so much attention given to the problem, why has the issue disappeared from the public view when the planet now has 10 billion people? Embedded in Fritz Haber's largely suppressed story are important clues to why this has occurred.